This paper deals with a generic problem of matching agents with underlying preferences while guaranteeing a certain level of privacy is met. As a general framework, we consider consumers and prosumers who trade energy on a platform. Consumers buy energy to the platform to maximize their usage...

We provide evidence that people have preferences for data privacy and show that these preferences partly reflect people's interest in controlling who receives their private information. Participants of an experiment face the decision to share validated personal information with peers. We compare...